Breaches and Hacks Archive

Cyber criminals have been luring people into handing over their personal details under the pretence of bidding for U.S. Department of Transportation contracts. The phishing campaign, which targeted organisations in the engineering, energy and architecture sectors, told recipients that the …

In August, we found 84 publicly disclosed cyber attacks and data breaches, which accounted for almost 61 million breached records. You can find the full list of incidents on our sister site, but, as always, we delve into some of the …

According to our figures, there were at least 128 publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2021. And as was the case last month, ransomware was the main method of attack, with 52 reported cases. You can find …

In March, we found 151 publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks, making it by far the leakiest month we’ve recorded. By comparison, there were just 82 incidents in January and 118 in February. You can find the full list …

Following the announcement that Accellion was infected with ransomware, February was bound to be a bad month for the cyber security industry. In total, we found 118 publicly disclosed cyber attacks and data breaches, which accounted for 2,323,326,953 breached records. …

In January, we recorded 82 publicly disclosed security incidents, which accounted for 878 million breached records. You can find the full list of breaches on our sister site, but in this blog, we look at a couple of the more notable …

We recorded 117 publicly disclosed cyber attacks and data breaches in October 2020, making it the leakiest month of the year so far. It surpasses September’s total of 102 incidents, and marks the third month in a row in which …